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I was driving some backroads through Minnesota while heading back to Colorado after fall colors in the midwest, when out of no where as I approached this town I saw all of these dead sunflowers and saw they were covered in birds and that huge swarms of birds would fly up into the air like a...

Up in the Snowy Range, after I met up with @MonikaC in the morning, I went out to do some exploring. My goal was to drive out to a lake on the west side called Dipper. It was a gravel forest service road for a bit, and then it turned into a full fledges 4x4 trail with about 4 inches of snow on...

I have been wanting to go to the Snowy Range up in Wyoming for years, probably about 40 years. I have driven through Laramie dozens upon dozens of times and never turned off for the Snowy Range. After @MonikaC posted several awesome images from there recently, I decided I had to get there...

I just updated Photoshop and Bridge today and when I went to use Generative Fill on an image, I notice it had a popup about Generative Credits. And that each Generative action takes 1 credit. I am not sure if my plan has the unlimited Credits or not, but I have to say this really makes me not...

But not on purpose! :) The other night at the local Nature area it had a decent sunset, but it was the post sunset that also looked nice. But by then it was getting darker, the shadows were getting deeper, but the clouds that stayed still had some color and there was some glow in the sky. The...

What kind of milk do you want? Milkweed that is. :) I captured this right at sunset so it was getting a bit dim yesterday at the local Nature Area. I don't see them too often, so I thought it looked cool. All comments are welcome, Jim

This is one of the 2 main comets out right now, and I have wanted to capture it for a while now, and last night I finally got a chance. I drove out to a State Park in Northern Colorado that's about an hour from my daughters house. I set up my Seestar S50 in EQ mode and started imaging. This one...

This is from Oct 9th in Minnesota. I found a hillside just west of Duluth Minnesota that had fall colors. As I have mentioned, the fall color this year in the midwest was happening in pockets of color, and this was one such pocket, and was actually the best pocket I found. The hillside ran up...

I am back in Colorado after a mediocre fall color season in the upper midwest. The Aspens are done in the mountains here, so I am going after the Cottonwoods which are rather plentiful at the lower elevations. I captured this yesterday at a local nature area in Northern Colorado. All comments...

My annual trip to the Upper Midwest resulted in this year being the worst fall color season in the 7 or 8 years that I switched to going there for fall colors. The weather has been too warm, so it never had that cold snap to trigger the fall colors. The maples did change color, maybe they...

A couple of days late for Alan's Waterfall Wednesday, though I think I did capture this on Wednesday. :) Willow River Falls in Wisconsin is one of my favorite waterfalls and I usually visit it each fall when I come back to the midwest for fall colors. It's an easy trail, about 1 mile in and it...

I captured this earlier today, I liked that I could see letters in it. Captured in central Minnesota. iPhone 15 Pro Max All comments welcome, Jim

I had a choice a few nights ago. I had stopped to eat dinner at Betty's Pies a great place to eat near Two Harbors on the North Shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. The problem was they were closing in 30 mins, but at that same time the sun was setting with some great wave action. I was...

I am staying at a hotel in the Wisconsin Dells tonight and I found that Chevy Chase is also staying here. (Hopefully everyone gets this)

I was heading up to the Upper Midwest this week, with the goal to be in Minnesota on Wednesday night. But on Monday when I left Cheyenne, there was talk of some solar activity for Monday night, but not enough to make me alter my plans of driving first to Chicago to meet with family. But then on...

From the local Nature area by my Daughters house in Northern Colorado about a month ago. All comments are welcome, Jim

There is a large Petroglyph panel area in the Tsankawi trail loop offshoot of the Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico. Here are 5 images from it. All comments are welcome, Jim #1 #2 #3 #4 #5

I was driving from Santa age to Cheyenne taking your back route. In between Fort Garland and Walsenburg in Colorado I spotted these old buildings nestled in among some fall color. So I had to stop! iPhone 15 Pro Max All comments are welcome, Jim

This is from Sept 7th. I hadn't captured the moon in a while, and so I caught it. This is just about straight from the jpg that the Seestar saves. I added just a slight bit of sharpening and contrast. But I really almost just posted it the way it came straight from the S50. All comments are...

Finally I got a few days of clear nights. I had to go to my son's house that is NW of Santa Fe, New Mexico to finally get it. But it sure was nice! He has a basketball court on the side of the house, so I could set up my telescope and leave it set up for the last 3 days. I cover it with a tarp...